To be fair, I think there's a general DGAF attitude in ANH among all the principals. They realized the dialogue was designed to be sort of naive and earnest and tried to have fun with it -- e.g. Hamill's overt whininess.
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And yeah the age gap was bigger irl in TPM - Lloyd was actually 8 but Portman was 16 - which doesn't help As Lucas helpfully reminded us re: Marion, there's a pretty big difference between 14 and 16
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Portman was 18 in 1999, though I suppose she was younger during filming. And as has already been said, she played the role so much older. I spent most of the film being weirded out that these two people were eventually going to have sex.
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And Christensen is the same age as Portman, so the age difference is gently elided onscreen.
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Right, yeah - and I mean, it's two problems; both the age gap between them, and the extreme youth of both characters in a broader sense, even if their plots were separate.
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And having the audience first exposed to them when Portman looks like a grown woman vs an actual kid (not even an early teenager) really puts people off giving it a second chance later when it's still pretty bad
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Yeah, Portman was only 2-3 years younger than Fisher when she played Leia for the first time. And that movie paired her up as a romantic interest to guys who were 5 and 15 years older.
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